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Sane asylums : the success of homeopathy before psychiatry lost its mind / Jerry M. Kantor.

Kantor, Jerry M., (author.).

Summary:
"Reveals the astonishing but suppressed history of homeopathic psychiatry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781644114087
  • ISBN: 1644114089
  • Physical Description: xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Rochester, Vermont : Healing Arts Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-260) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Who Are the Mad and Where Shall They Dwell? -- The Dawn of Enlightened Mental Health Care -- Homeopathy to the Fore -- The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln -- Enter Selden Haines Talcott -- Middletown Hospital's Utopian Agenda -- Walking the Talk -- Play Ball! The Innovation of Baseball Therapy -- Genius Physician and Nurse-Educator Clara Barrus -- Disciples and Satellites of the Mother Church -- Concessions to the Spirit of the Times -- Investing in Sanity.
Subject: Mental illness > Treatment.
Homeopathy.
Mental Disorders > therapy.
Mental Disorders > history.
Homeopathy > history.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
United States.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at SPARK Libraries.

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Bethlehem Main Library 362.21 (Text) 33062009660334 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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